My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDERLove is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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